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Cell Phones May Boost Forces on Biological Tissue
Mobile phone radiation may cause a massive increase in the forces that living cells exert on each other, suggests a new study from Sweden. The research could be important in answering the question of whether the radiation from mobile phones causes cancer or other health problems. Many researchers fear the answer is yes, yet they have been unable to come up with any plausible way that radiation from a phone could affect, let alone harm, biological tissue. Now, Bo Sernelius, a physicist at Linkoping University in Sweden, has a new lead: stronger attractive forces between cells might make them clump together, for example, or cause blood vessels to contract.